"David Hedison as Felix Leiter, who reprised the role in ""Licence to Kill"". Hedison had said ""I was sure that would be my first and last"", before being cast again. Madeline Smith, who played Miss Caruso, sharing Bond's bed in the film's opening, was recommended for the part by Roger Moore after he had appeared with her on TV. Smith said that Moore was extremely polite to work with, but she felt very uncomfortable being clad in only blue bikini panties while Moore's wife was on set overseeing the scene. ""Live and Let Die"" was the only Bond film until"
"Pfeiffer and Worrall agree, thinking that Burton was ""the least likely incarnation"" of Leiter. In 1973 the Bond franchise introduced a new main lead, Roger Moore, who played Bond for the next twelve years in seven films. To play the part of Leiter in ""Live and Let Die"", an old friend of Moore's was chosen, David Hedison. Pfeiffer and Worrall consider that this friendship comes through, with ""genuine chemistry"" between the two. Hedison played the role with an understated charm, although the script did not give Leiter much to do. Raymond Benson thought him miscast, but acknowledged that ""he's the"
"Roger Moore Sir Roger George Moore (14 October 1927 – 23 May 2017) was an English actor. He is best known for having played Ian Fleming's fictional British secret agent James Bond in seven feature films from 1973 to 1985. Moore took over the role of Bond from Sean Connery in 1972, made his first appearance as 007 in ""Live and Let Die"" (1973), and went on to portray the spy in six more films until his retirement from the role in 1985. Appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1991, Moore was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 for"
"Live and Let Die (song) ""Live and Let Die"" is the main theme song of the 1973 James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"", written by Paul and Linda McCartney and performed by Wings. It was the most successful Bond theme to that point, charting at No. 2 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and No. 9 on the UK Singles Chart. Commissioned specifically for the movie, it reunited the former Beatle with the band's producer, George Martin, who produced the song and arranged the orchestra. It has been covered by several bands, with the Guns N' Roses version being"
"2016. James married twice: to Donna Lea Beach from 1948 to 1950, with whom he had one child, and to Laurie Harper, from 1951 until her death in 2015, with whom he had five children. He resided in Gladstone, Oregon, and died from complications of diabetes on April 15, 2017, aged 96. Clifton James George Clifton James (May 29, 1920 – April 15, 2017) was an American actor, best known for his roles as Sheriff J.W. Pepper alongside Roger Moore in the ""James Bond"" films ""Live and Let Die"" (1973) and ""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1974), the sheriff"
"ring was presented to Seymour in April 2016 in Singapore while she was there to star in ""The Vortex"". Jane Seymour (actress) Jane Seymour, OBE (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg; 15 February 1951), is an English-American actress. Best known for her performances in the James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"" (1973); ""Somewhere In Time"" (1980); ""East of Eden"" (1981); ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"" (1982 film); ""Onassis: The Richest Man in the World"" (1988); ""War and Remembrance"" (1988); the French epic ""La Révolution française"" (1989) as the ill-fated queen Marie Antoinette; ""Wedding Crashers"" (2005); and the American television series ""Dr. Quinn,"
"Gloria Hendry Gloria Hendry (born March 3, 1949), also known inaccurately as Gloria Henry, is an American actress and former Playboy model. She is best known for her roles in films from the 1970s, most notably: portraying Rosie Carver in 1973's James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"", which was Roger Moore's first Bond film; and Helen Bradley in the blaxploitation film ""Black Caesar"", and the sequel, ""Hell Up in Harlem"". Hendry began her acting career in the 1968 Sidney Poitier film ""For Love of Ivy"", followed by a small role in the 1970 film ""The Landlord"". In 1973 she"
"the role of Silvia, in the original London production of the rock musical ""Two Gentlemen of Verona"", and sang on the cast recording of it. Then followed the performance for which Arnau is best remembered; as the cabaret act in the James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"" (1973). She performed the title track (composed by Paul and Linda McCartney). The producer, Harry Saltzman, requested a talented and versatile soul singer for the opening credits but Arnau's appearance was an amazing surprise. The soundtrack's composer and producer George Martin indicated that “McCartney would only allow the song to be used"
"and her experiences as an African American woman during the 1960s. Gloria Hendry Gloria Hendry (born March 3, 1949), also known inaccurately as Gloria Henry, is an American actress and former Playboy model. She is best known for her roles in films from the 1970s, most notably: portraying Rosie Carver in 1973's James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"", which was Roger Moore's first Bond film; and Helen Bradley in the blaxploitation film ""Black Caesar"", and the sequel, ""Hell Up in Harlem"". Hendry began her acting career in the 1968 Sidney Poitier film ""For Love of Ivy"", followed by a"
"Service"" and Connery was enticed back to the role of Bond again for ""Diamonds Are Forever"" (1971), Moore did not consider the possibility until it seemed clear that Connery had stepped down as Bond for good. At that point, Moore was approached, and he accepted producer Albert Broccoli's offer in August 1972. In his autobiography, Moore writes that he had to cut his hair and lose weight for the role. Although he resented having to make those changes, he was finally cast as James Bond in ""Live and Let Die"" (1973). Moore then made ""Gold"" (1974), based on a novel"
"Jane Seymour (actress) Jane Seymour, OBE (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg; 15 February 1951), is an English-American actress. Best known for her performances in the James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"" (1973); ""Somewhere In Time"" (1980); ""East of Eden"" (1981); ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"" (1982 film); ""Onassis: The Richest Man in the World"" (1988); ""War and Remembrance"" (1988); the French epic ""La Révolution française"" (1989) as the ill-fated queen Marie Antoinette; ""Wedding Crashers"" (2005); and the American television series ""Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman"" (1993–1998), she has earned an Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards and a star on the Hollywood"
"the 1973 James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"", written by Paul and Linda McCartney and performed by Paul's band Wings. Drucker was solo bass player in the Anton Chekhov film 'Romance with a Double Bass' released in 1974 with John Cleese as the main character. In 1980 he formed a unique group, the London Double Bass Ensemble, comprising a nucleus of four double basses, to perform original works in concert with other instruments. Drucker commissioned a new piece of work by the English composer Robert Simpson in 1981, Quintet for Clarinet, Bass Clarinet and String Trio (Simpson) which was"
"offer to return as Bond. Gavin's contract was still honored in full. According to Roger Moore's ""James Bond Diary"", Gavin also was slated to play Bond in ""Live and Let Die"" (1973), but Harry Saltzman insisted on a British actor for the role and Roger Moore played the role instead. Gavin had been on the Board of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) in 1965. He served one term as Third Vice-President, and two terms as First Vice-President. He was president from 1971-73. According to the SAG website: As Guild President, in 1972, he testified before the Federal Trade Commission on"
"Roy Stewart Roy Stewart (15 May 1925 – 27 October 2008), was a Jamaican-born British actor. He began his career as a stuntman and went on to work in film and television. In 1954 he founded Roy Stewart's Gym in Powis Square, North Kensington, and ran the Caribbean club and restaurant The Globe, in Talbot Road until his death. Stewart played Quarrel Junior in the James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"" (1973). Other film appearances include ""Carry On Up the Jungle"" (1970), ""Leo the Last"" (1970), ""Games That Lovers Play"" (1971), ""Twins of Evil"" (1971), ""Lady Caroline Lamb"" (1972),"
"to begin with, but the filmmakers make it worse by throwing in some stupid Louisiana cops, including pot-bellied Sheriff Pepper."" IGN ranked Solitaire as 10th in a Top 10 Bond Babes list. In November 2006, ""Entertainment Weekly"" listed ""Live and Let Die"" as the third-best Bond film. MSN chose it as the-thirteenth best Bond film and IGN listed it as twelfth-best. In 2004 the American Film Institute nominated the song ""Live and Let Die"" from the film for AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs. Live and Let Die (film) Live and Let Die is a 1973 British spy film, the eighth in"
"found. The brackish water in the lower levels is full of marine life including small barnacles and various unidentified small swimming creatures. The filming of the 1973 James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"", used the caves for villain Doctor Kananga's underground base beneath a cemetery on the fictional island of San Monique. It is most memorable for being the location where Bond (played for the first time by Roger Moore) kills Kananga (played by Yaphet Kotto) by forcing him to swallow a bullet of compressed air, causing him to float up to the ceiling like a balloon and explode."
"It was also the first James Bond film featuring an African American Bond girl romantically involved with 007, Rosie Carver, who was played by Gloria Hendry. The film was a box office success and received generally positive reviews from critics. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for ""Live and Let Die"", written by Paul and Linda McCartney and performed by their band Wings. Three MI6 agents are killed under mysterious circumstances within 24 hours in the United Nations headquarters in New York City, New Orleans and the Caribbean nation of San Monique, while monitoring"
"as models, his ""favourite"" being his wife Sheila who was also lead dancer in his company. His younger brother was the actor Geoffrey Holder – perhaps best known for his role as the villain Baron Samedi in the 1973 James Bond-film ""Live and Let Die"". Born in Trinidad to Louise de Frense and Arthur Holder from Barbados, Boscoe Holder was the eldest of five children. He attended Tranquility Intermediate School and Queen's Royal College. He started a musical career at a young age, playing the piano professionally for rich French creole, Portuguese and Chinese families. In his teens he began"
"Timothy Dalton Timothy Dalton (; born Timothy Leonard Dalton Leggett; 21 March 1946) is a Welsh born British actor. He is best known for portraying James Bond in ""The Living Daylights"" (1987) and ""Licence to Kill"" (1989), as well as Mr. Rochester in ""Jane Eyre"" (1983), Rhett Butler in the television miniseries ""Scarlett"" (1994), and Simon Skinner in ""Hot Fuzz"" (2007). Dalton was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, to an English father, Peter Dalton Leggett, who was a captain in the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War and was an advertising executive at the time of his"
"stage and showing old pictures. The video also was made shortly before Izzy Stradlin's departure, and it is the last video where he appears. It charted at No. 20 on the Mainstream Rock chart. The song was nominated for ""Best Hard Rock Performance"" during the 1993 Grammy Awards. Guns N' Roses Additional musicians General Live and Let Die (song) ""Live and Let Die"" is the main theme song of the 1973 James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"", written by Paul and Linda McCartney and performed by Wings. It was the most successful Bond theme to that point, charting at"
"in ""Spy Game"" (2001) and ""Batman Begins"" (2005). In the earlier years of his career, Rimmer appeared uncredited in, among other films, ""You Only Live Twice"" (1967), ""Diamonds Are Forever"" (1971), ""Star Wars"" (1977) and ""Superman II"" (1980). With the exception of cast members playing recurring characters, he has appeared in more James Bond films than any other actor. He also is believed to have provided the voice for the character Hamilton (played by Robert Dix) in 1973's ""Live and Let Die"" (""Whose, uh, funeral is it?"" – ""Yours""). Rimmer had a long-running association with TV producer Gerry Anderson, most"
"in 1973, which played on the cycle of blaxploitation films produced at the time. The film was directed by Guy Hamilton, produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and is the eighth in the Eon Productions Bond series. Some scenes from the novel were depicted in later Bond films, including the sequence of Bond and Solitaire being dragged behind Mr Big's boat, which was used in the film ""For Your Eyes Only"", while Felix Leiter was not fed to a shark until ""Licence to Kill"", which also faithfully adapts ""Live and Let Die""s shoot-out in the warehouse. Live and"
"Spokane, Washington, the son of Grace (née Dean), a teacher, and Harry James, a journalist. He grew up in Oregon in the Gladstone area of Clackamas County. James was a decorated World War II United States Army veteran. He served as an infantry platoon sergeant with Co. ""A"" 163rd Inf., 41st Div. He served forty-two months in the South Pacific from January 1942 until August 1945. His decorations include the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and two Purple Hearts. James became well known for playing the comic-relief role of Louisiana Sheriff J.W. Pepper in the James Bond films ""Live and Let"
"not reprise the role of James Bond. Moore, who by the time of the release of ""The Living Daylights"" would have been 59 years old, chose to retire from the role after 12 years and 7 films. Albert Broccoli, however, claimed that he let Moore go from the role. An extensive search for a new actor to play Bond saw a number of actors, including New Zealander Sam Neill, Irish-born Pierce Brosnan and Welsh-born stage actor Timothy Dalton audition for the role in 1986. Bond co-producer Michael G. Wilson, director John Glen, Dana and Barbara Broccoli ""were impressed with Sam"
"October 2008. The Globe functions to this day and is one of longest-running nightclubs in London. It also has a Caribbean restaurant upstairs. Roy Stewart Roy Stewart (15 May 1925 – 27 October 2008), was a Jamaican-born British actor. He began his career as a stuntman and went on to work in film and television. In 1954 he founded Roy Stewart's Gym in Powis Square, North Kensington, and ran the Caribbean club and restaurant The Globe, in Talbot Road until his death. Stewart played Quarrel Junior in the James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"" (1973). Other film appearances include"
"film's end, Leiter is shown recovering in the hospital. Following Hedison's first outing in 1973 in ""Live and Let Die"", the Leiter role did not appear again until the 1987 film ""The Living Daylights"", by which time Bond was being played by Timothy Dalton; the role was taken up by John Terry. Smith and Lavington consider that, although the scene between Bond and Leiter sees warmth in the relationship between them, ""it is too fleeting to have any impact"". Pfeiffer and Worrall agree on the briefness of Leiter's role in the film, although they consider that Terry has ""virtually no"
"in the UK, on 2 October 2008 (). On 16 October 2012, ""Bond on Bond"" was published to tie in with the 50th anniversary of the James Bond films. The book, with many pictures, is based on Moore's own memories, thoughts, and anecdotes about all things 007, with some of the profits of the book going to UNICEF. Roger Moore Sir Roger George Moore (14 October 1927 – 23 May 2017) was an English actor. He is best known for having played Ian Fleming's fictional British secret agent James Bond in seven feature films from 1973 to 1985. Moore took"
"his earliest, Stewart appeared in a television advert for ""Fry's Turkish Delight"", playing a snake charmer. Later, he was an extra in films and did stunt work. He would become one of the top black actors and stuntmen in Britain. Possibly his earliest role was an uncredited one, playing a slave in the 1959 film, ""The Mummy"". In 1973, he played the part of Quarrel Junior in the James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"" starring Roger Moore. Having not returned to Jamaica where the film was being shot for many years, Stewart suffered in the heat and couldn't believe"
"interest in producing a James Bond film based upon Ian Fleming's novel ""Live and Let Die"", but no agreement was ever reached. Korda was married three times, first to the Hungarian actress María Corda in 1919. They had one son, Peter Vincent Korda, and divorced in 1930. In 1939, he married the film star Merle Oberon. They divorced six years later. He married, lastly, on 8 June 1953, Alexandra Boycun (1928–1966), who survived him. Korda died at the age of 62 in London in 1956 of a heart attack and was cremated. His ashes are at Golders Green Crematorium in"
"Clifton James George Clifton James (May 29, 1920 – April 15, 2017) was an American actor, best known for his roles as Sheriff J.W. Pepper alongside Roger Moore in the ""James Bond"" films ""Live and Let Die"" (1973) and ""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1974), the sheriff in ""Silver Streak"" (1976), a Texas tycoon in ""The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training"" (1977), as the owner of the scandalous 1919 Chicago White Sox baseball team in ""Eight Men Out"" (1988), and earlier in his acting career as a prison floorwalker in ""Cool Hand Luke"" (1967). James was born in"
"Live and Let Die (soundtrack) Live and Let Die is the soundtrack to the eighth James Bond film of the same name. It was scored by George Martin. The title song was written by Paul and Linda McCartney and performed by Paul McCartney and Wings. It was the first Bond film score not to involve John Barry. The music for most of the Bond films through ""Diamonds Are Forever"" had been scored by John Barry. Due to his working on a musical, and having fallen out with Bond producer Harry Saltzman over the last title song, Barry was unavailable to"
"Live and Let Die (video game) James Bond: Live And Let Die is a video game loosely based on the 1973 James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"". The game was released by Domark for the Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, and ZX Spectrum in 1988. ""Live and Let Die"" is a racing game in which the player navigates James Bond driving a modified speedboat. It did not start as a Bond game, being a rebranding after Domark saw Elite Systems International working on a game named ""Aquablast"", and thought the boat driving and fighting of said"
"by Wilbur Smith for producer Michael Klinger and director Peter R. Hunt (who had directed and edited some Bond films). He was paid US$200,000 plus a percentage of the profits. Moore made his second Bond, ""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1974), which was a hit though less successful than ""Live and Let Die"". It featured Christopher Lee as the main antagonist. Also appearing are Britt Ekland, Herve Villechaize, and Maud Adams. He then made a comedy ""That Lucky Touch"" (1975) which was a box office disaster. He made an Italian-shot action film ""Street People"" (1976), then went back to"